Pokanoket

The Pokanoket are a Native American tribe in present-day Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The Pokanoket were the leading tribe of the Wampanoag nation before the European arrival in 1620, and the Pokanoket helped the English Pilgrims with planting crops and living in North America. The sachem Massasoit's son Metacomet succeeded his father in 1662, and Metacomet led the Wampanoag into "King Philip's War" against the English from 1675 to 1678. After the war, the Pokanoket identity was criminalized in New England.